I am going to cover a bit of everything here in one post, then I have real work to do, tying in probably nothing except that first humans have to
think.
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Posting 5:
[Bill Ryan's questions]
4) Regarding Time: The Team Members brought several time pieces, e.g., wrist watches, non-battery style, as it stated in the debriefing data. The
time pieces worked, but they had no reference to time since the Eben days were longer, the dusk and dawn periods were longer and they had no calenders
to reference.
They did use the time pieces to calculate movement, for example, timing the movement of the Eben two suns. They also calculated the time between work
and rest periods. But, after awhile, the team discarded their time pieces and used the Eben's measurement of time periods.
The team became
confused with the calenders they brought – a 10-year calender.
Posting 7b:
After reading Dr. Sagan's remarks on the Serpo project, which is about 60 jam-packed pages of calculations, I found one paragraph which states that
in order to use Kepler's law – in the case of Planet Serpo –
one had to vary the exact gravitational pull placed on Serpo by the two suns.
Serpo did not have large planets, like Jupiter and Saturn to affect the gravitational pull as the Earth does. Serpo's gravitational pull was
different than anything Dr. Sagan had ever seen before.
There are numerous figures and calculations to support this. I will forward them at a later date. Have your list stay tuned.
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The Calendar repeats every 7 years, since there are 7 days in the week. Every 4 years is a Leap Year, unless it is divisible by 100 (like 1700A.D.)
unless it is both divisible by 400 and 100 (like 1600A.D.) then it is a leap year. 2000A.D. was a Leap Year because it is divisible by both 400 and
100, while 1900 A.D. was not a Leap Year.
The Calendar was made by Pope Gregory because according to astronomical observation, it was off, and by the year 1582 A.D. (I am thinking from memory)
ten days were cut off the calendar to bring it in line with astronomical observation because the old calendar was off that much at that time. One day
it was October 3rd, and the next day it was October 14th, because before the current calendar, I think the calendar dated back to the old Roman
days.
But don't think too much about that, because the current used calendar is still off, by a little, because the Earth's Mean Solar Year is 365.2524
days which means it is still off by 0.0024 days.
At the end of this year -- do add a second to your clock by moving the clock back by a second. It is added because of the atomic clock, and NIST
(National Institute of Standards and Technology) correcting the clock -- because it needs a second added to it -- so move your clock back a second at
the end of the year. (which also gives you a second more to celebrate the end of the year).
Of course, I am suppose to think that the Government in their infinite Wisdom would supply a 10-year Calendar and spend that extra money -- it won't
cost that much actually. Will it?
But as to the second posting about the gravity -- a variable gravity planet. Up in Space orbiting around this Planet - -they have grown plants. Down
here on Earth -- the roots grow down -- because of gravity -- up in Space orbiting around this Planet -- Plants grow circular -- look it up -- as it
is on the Internet. (or in a spiral pattern -- since that is the way the Earth moves in Space because of the Sun's gravity exerting it pull mostly
except for the Moon which causes the Tides to Rise and Fall).
I fail to see how gravity from the large Planets has much to do with anything here on Planet Earth because of the inverse square law of gravity.
Twice the distance --- 1/4 the pull from gravity. It is insignificant, because the large planets are so far away --- Jupiter -- 350 million miles and
Saturn -- a whooping about 1 billion miles away. The Earth is about 24,000 miles around this Planet -- and the nearest Star -- the Alpha Centauri
system -- is generally speaking 25,000,000,000,000 (trillion) miles away - or from 4.2 to 4.3 light years away (the light-year being 5,880,000,000,000
(trillion) miles as a measurement.
I wonder how the plants grow on Serpo, with variable gravity -- I guess they would look strange somewhat -- but still -- variable gravity -- I suppose
humans need some sort of machine to experience that. I call it a new Disneyland ride.
Gravity can also vary on this Planet though -- go up a ways or down a ways, and the gravity will vary -- in fact finding something to actually measure
gravity will be a new technology in its self.
Well, there is a ways to go with this story, so I may have time to look at it once upon some time, but then I suppose I am just pointing this out to
some people who may not know some of this.
It is the Sun (Sol) that does mainly exert gravity upon this Planet and all Planets -- being at least 99% of the Mass of the Solar System. The Stars
of Zeta 1 & 2 Reticula -- which I looked up last night -- and have a magnitude of about 5.5 in our sky -- would be dim from our night sky -- but one
Sun orbiting within the Planet and the other Sun -- or so as I read -- would certainly add gravity to Planet Serpo in a way -- that may confuse any
spacealien -- in the end.
PA (position angle was also given on the star chart) but it is an older book by Robert Burham -- and was given as 222 degrees I think. Perhaps newer
data can be obtained about those two stars -- Zeta 1 & Zeta 2 Reticuli -- as of nowadays.
The Planet Serpo may be elongated more than the oblate spheroid that we all live on -- because of gravity of the two Suns. So it turns out to be a
debate how much the Planet Serpo is -- well, not even as close to being a circle as our Planet is -- and by how much -- depending on those two Suns --
both main sequence stars -- exerting a pull on Planet Serpo. That Planet would surely be like a boing-boing ball from gravity.
Boing!
The Ebens are indeed strange then!
If our Moon was closer, we all be wet from the oceans and the Tides rising so high -- as to drench us!
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